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  • The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.

    Salman Rushdie (1990). “Is nothing sacred?”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
  • Whatever events in progress shall disgust men with cities, and infuse into them the passion for country life, and country pleasures, will render a service to the whole face of this continent, and will further the most poetic of all the occupations of real life, the bringing out by art the native but hidden graces of the landscape.

    Country   Art   Real  
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.295
  • You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.

    Book   Soul   Ignorant  
  • In vulgar usage, progress has come to mean limitless movement in space and time, accompanied, necessarily, by an equally limitless command of energy: culminating in limitless destruction.

    Mean   Space   Progress  
    Lewis Mumford (1974). “The Pentagon of Power”, Harcourt
  • Because that's just the way it is, and don't sleep on what you did before, you know, because it can... not hurt you, but you can find yourself sleeping on something that happened in the past, but you dare to progress and there is always room for progression.

    Hurt   Sleep   Past  
  • Three marital bonds exist: Karmic, Dharmic and Cosmic. The first are of pain, misery, hunger, nakedness, disgrace. The second are of success, bliss, love, financial progress, etc. The third are only for the select, pure and holy souls and bring inexhaustible happiness.

    Pain   Soul   Progress  
  • Progress is impossible without the ability to admit mistakes.

  • I'm a slow walker, but I never walk back.

    Abraham Lincoln (1999). “The Wit & Wisdom of Abraham Lincoln: A Treasury of Quotations, Anecdotes, and Observations”, Gramercy
  • For a seeker, Guru Purnima is a day of significance, is a day of New Year. It is the day to review one’s progress on the spiritual path and renew one’s determination and focus on the goal, and to resolve what one wants to do in the coming year

  • I am a Republican, a black, dyed in the wool Republican, and I never intend to belong to any other party than the party of freedom and progress.

    Freedom   Party   Black  
  • I saw in States' rights the only availing check upon the absolutism of the sovereign will, and secession filled me with hope, not as the destruction but as the redemption of Democracy.... Therefore I deemed that you were fighting the battles of our liberty, our progress, and our civilization, and I mourn for the stake which was lost at Richmond more deeply than I rejoice over that which was saved at Waterloo.

  • What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.

    Life   Time   Book  
    Sigmund Freud (2016). “Three Contributions to the Theory of Sex (Annotated)”, p.18, Sigmund Freud
  • When I don't make any progress, it is because I have bumped into the wall of language. Then I draw back with a bloody head. And would like to go on.

    Wall   Writing   Progress  
    Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”
  • Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.

    "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Living is worthwhile if one can contribute in some small way to this endless chain of progress.

    Progress   Way   Chains  
    "Impact? I want an interstellar Higgs drive please" by Jon Butterworth, www.theguardian.com. July 16, 2012.
  • Progress is a farce because man's head and hand have created wonders that stun the imagination, but his heart does not keep step and his morals undo all that his mind has wrought.

    Heart   Men   Hands  
  • Growth is improving the lot of the poor in many countries, reducing poverty by half since 1981. Freer trade could accelerate progress.

  • Probably the greatest single obstacle to the progress and happiness of the American people lies in the willingness of so many men to invest their time and money in multiplying competitive industries instead of opening up new fields, and putting their money into lines of industry and development that are needed.

    Lying   Men   Opening Up  
    John D. Rockefeller (2003). “Random Reminiscences of Men and Events”, p.144, The Minerva Group, Inc.
  • As I have continued to make music and progress as an artist, I think I am steadily getting better at expanding my lyrical content and defining who I am as an artist.

  • Unless some effective world supergovernment for the purpose of preventing war can be set up ... the prospects for peace and human progress are dark ....If .... it is found possible to build a world organization of irresistible force and inviolable authority for the purpose of securing peace, there are no limits to the blessings which all men enjoy and share.

    War   Dark   Blessing  
  • If somebody is working on a new medicine, computer science helps us model those things. We have a whole group here in Seattle called the Institute for Disease Modelling that is a mix of computer science and math-type people, and the progress we're making in polio or plans for malaria or really driven by their deep insights.

    Math   Medicine   People  
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  • We may never be strong enough to be entirely non-violent in thought, word and deed. But we must keep non-violence as our goal and make steady progress towards it.

    "Gandhi on Non-Violence".
  • One can truly say that the irresistible progress of natural science since the time of Galileo has made its first halt before the study of the higher parts of the brain, the organ of the most complicated relations of the animal to the external world. And it seems, and not without reason, that now is the really critical moment for natural science; for the brain, in its highest complexity-the human brain-which created and creates natural science, itself becomes the object of this science.

    Science   Animal   Brain  
  • The founder of any branch must be more ingenious than the common man. However, if his achievement is not carried on by disciples of the same ingenuity, then things will only become formalized and get stuck in a cul-de-sac; whereby breakthrough and progress will be almost impossible.

    Men   Progress   Branches  
    Bruce Lee (2015). “Bruce Lee Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living”, p.150, Tuttle Publishing
  • To study the meaning of man and of life — I am making significant progress here. I have faith in myself. Man is a mystery: if you spend your entire life trying to puzzle it out, then do not say that you have wasted your time. I occupy myself with this mystery, because I want to be a man.

    Men   Progress   Trying  
    "Dostoevsky : His Life and Work". Book by Konstantin Mochulski, 1971.
  • Change does not necessarily assure progress, but progress implacably requires change.

  • Without labor there is neither wealth, nor comfort, nor progress.

    Work   Progress   Comfort  
  • Economic progress, in capitalist society, means turmoil.

    Joseph A. Schumpeter (2003). “Ten Great Economists”, p.77, Routledge
  • Cultural criticism finds itself faced with the final stage of the dialectic of culture and barbarism. To write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric. And this corrodes even the knowledge of why it has become impossible to write poetry today. Absolute reification, which presupposed intellectual progress as one of its elements, is now preparing to absorb the mind entirely. Critical intelligence cannot be equal to this challenge as long as it confines itself to self-satisfied contemplation.

    Writing   Self   Long  
    "Cultural Criticism and Society". Essay by Theodor Adorno (1949), reprinted in his book "Prisms", 1967.
  • I realized that perseverence and step-by-step progress are the only ways to reach a goal along a chosen path.

    Goal   Progress   Way  
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